Life Quotes
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.William Shakespeare
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.Henry David Thoreau
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.Robert Green Ingersoll
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
The difficulty in life is the choice.George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington
One only needs two tools in life WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.G. Weilache
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.Richard Guggenheime
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.Author Unknown
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucious
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James Allen
Here is a great body of our Jewish citizens from whom have sprung men of genius in every walk of our varied life; men who have conceived of its ideals with singular clearness; and led enterprises with sprit & sagacity... They are not Jews in America, they are American citizens.Woodrow Wilson
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.Emil Brunne
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.Alfred Austin
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.S? ren Kierkegaard
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.Albert Camus, The Strange
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.Bible
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.Henri Frdric Amiel
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.Pablo Picasso
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
